Famous quotes containing the word asked:
“... we’ve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventy—all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics—many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“You said, “They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.”M”What,” I asked you, “is harmless about a dreamer, and what,” I asked you, “is harmless about the love of the people?—Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.””
—Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)
“A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, “Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?” holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. “Yet,” added he, “none of you can tell where it pinches me.””
—Plutarch (c. 46–120 A.D.)